Defense Minister Ezer Weizman angrily deplored violence committed against Arabs by Jewish settlers on the West Bank. In the course of a Knesset debate on the matter, he referred specifically to the breakin into Arab homes in Hebron by Jewish vandals who beat up the occupants and destroyed their furniture.
“The Military Government will continue to be in charge of security and public order in the territories, regardless of whether they are inhabited by Jews or Arabs, ” he said. He noted that six suspects have been detained in connection with the Hebron incident. Most of them are American citizens who belong to Rabbi Meir Kahane’s “Kach” party. “I have no doubt that legal measures will be taken following the police investigation of the matter, ” Weizman said. He also called on women squatters from the Orthodox town of Kiryat Arba to end their three-week-old sit-in at the old Hadassah building in Hebron. That matter was referred to the Knesset’s Foreign Affairs and Security Committee.
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